Both Uses
eloquent
in
Harriet Tubman, by Petry
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- In the letter he not only expressed his own conviction that the Fugitive Slave Law was wrong, but he eloquently expressed the refusal of the Abolitionists to obey the law: "....I am not a man who loves violence; I respect the sacredness of human life, but this I say, solemnly, that I will do all in my power to rescue any fugitive slave from the hands of any officer who attempts to return him to bondage......I will do it as readily as I would lift a man out of the water, or pluck him from the teeth of a wolf, or snatch him from the hands of a murderer.†
Chpt 12eloquently = with powerful use of language
- She told them about Frederick Douglass, the most famous of the escaped slaves, of his eloquence, of his magnificent appearance.†
Chpt 15 *eloquence = powerful use of language
Definitions:
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(1)
(eloquent) powerful use of language
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)